Honda Center stands as one of the premier entertainment and sports venues in the country.

In addition to the 2007 Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks, the arena is also home to the Big West Basketball Tournament. Honda Center annually hosts top-name concerts, exciting sporting events and family favorites such as the Harlem Globetrotters and Stars on Ice. In just the past few years, capacity crowds filled Honda Center for world class acts such as The Rolling Stones, Garth Brooks, Maroon 5, Fleetwood Mac, Ariana Grande, Twenty One Pilots and more. Since opening, the arena has hosted over 3,500 events and more than 35 million guests have walked through its doors.

Our History

Owned by the city of Anaheim, Honda Center officially opened as Anaheim Arena on June 19, 1993 with a sold out Barry Manilow concert. In October of that same year, the venue was renamed Arrowhead Pond and hosted the first Mighty Ducks of Anaheim game. The year 2005 began a new era as Henry and Susan Samueli took ownership of both the team and the venue management company, Anaheim Arena Management, LLC. In 2006, the official name of the arena changed to Honda Center, along with the team to Anaheim Ducks.

Honda Center continues to make improvements to the facility, all in the interest of creating a great experience for every visiting fan. The venue’s most expansive upgrade, The Grand Terrace Project, features a 15,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor entertainment space, a 250-seat full service restaurant on the main level and an expanded Anaheim Ducks team store. Cisco’s state-of-the-art StadiumVision platform has been installed throughout the arena, incorporating more than 500 HD Monitors into the venue, creating a world class immersive live entertainment experience.

Debuting in fall of 2015 was a brand-new scoreboard measuring 27 feet tall and 47 feet 10 inches wide. The six millimeter diode equipped hardware features 1248 x 2208 lines of resolution, the clearest and highest definition picture available in any North American venue.

Building Facts

Construction start date: June 1991

Opening date: June 19, 1993

Building original cost: $103 million

Building final cost: $123 million

Architect: Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK)

Building owner: City of Anaheim

Management and Food & Beverage: Anaheim Arena Management, LLC

Main Tenant: Anaheim Ducks (Anaheim Ducks Hockey Club, LLC)

First event: Barry Manilow (sold out)

The arena is home to the annual Wooden Legacy and the Big West Basketball Tournament

The distance from the arena’s highest seat straight down to the floor level is only 82 feet.

Ice is made for hockey games thanks to 10 miles of piping that travels along the arena's concrete floor.

When ice is needed for an event, a solution made up of 40% Ethylene Glycol and 60% water is pumped through the piping, freezing the concrete. A thin layer of water is then pumped onto the floor and freezes to the concrete. Logos and ice markings are painted and another layer of ice is added.

It takes roughly 30 hours and 15,000 gallons of water to complete the ice making process, but only 5-6 hours to remove the ice at the end of the season.

Ice hockey is played on ice that is 1 1/4" thick with a floor temperature of 21 degrees. The ice for figure skating is 2” thick and 25-26 degrees. Figure skaters need the ice to be thicker and softer for jumping and landing.

It takes eight hours for a 25 man crew to go from hockey to a concert setup